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A statue of the Virgin Mary stands among the charred debris where eighty houses burned to the ground in the community of Breezy Point in the borough of Queens on October 31, 2012 in New York City. High winds brought on by Hurricane Sandy two days prior fueled the fire while high water made it difficult for firemen to contain the blaze. UPI /Monika Graff
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A pair of New Jersey women whose cat escaped after they evacuated their home after superstorm Sandy said the cat showed up six months later.
Funding from the government will help East Coast communities recover from last year's Hurricane Sandy, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said.
The Environmental Protection Agency will award $569 million to repair and upgrade water treatment plants damaged by Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey.
There are signs that sustained warming trends will continue because of high atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, a weather group said from Geneva.
A barometer of New York City business activity rose off of a five-month low in April, the Institute for Supply Management said Thursday.
Six months after Hurricane Sandy struck the U.S. East Coast, statistics compiled by Accuweather.com show why it merited being called a "superstorm."
Six months after Hurricane Sandy and a six-alarm fire struck the Breezy Point section of New York City, the community is still recovering.
Customers complained an Illinois bank didn't insure the contents of safe-deposit boxes ruined in floods caused by recent heavy rains.
Britain's Prince Harry showed he knows how to change a diaper Thursday, but not to prove it to Prince William and Kate who await the birth of their first child.
A federal judge in New York resentenced Wadih El-Hage, who was Osama bin Laden's secretary, to life in prison for conspiring to commit terrorism.
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